Almost every cell in our body contains around two meters (6.6 feet) of DNA, packed into a tiny nucleus. Yet for the cell to ...

As many as one in six adults face fertility difficulties worldwide, research has shown, and the challenge becomes harder as ...

Japanese scientists used CRISPR to remove the extra chromosome behind Down syndrome from human cells, opening new ...

A sweeping review of population-scale genomic data reveals that loss of the X chromosome is the most common mosaic ...

Researchers identified a stable major locus on wheat chromosome arm 4BS that influences drought tolerance during wheat ...

Japanese researchers used CRISPR-Cas9 to remove the extra chromosome 21 from cells in a lab. It's a real breakthrough — but not a Down syndrome cure, and not a new 2026 treatment.

Single deletions may be asymptomatic, but 'multiple deletions lead to infertility'—Mouse study with comprehensive deletion of ...

Whenever a cell divides, it has to split its chromosomes perfectly between two daughter cells, and even a single mistake can be disastrous. Now, researchers from Japan have found that one of the key ...

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Results provide framework for uncovering regulatory variants in other X chromosome neurodevelopmental genes that may ...

The human Y chromosome, responsible for determining male sex, finally has gotten an end-to-end examination. The Y chromosome is the smallest of the human chromosomes. “In the old time, people thought ...